Long-Awaited Lakeview Biomass Cogeneration Plant Expected to Bring Jobs, Improved Forest Health to Southern Oregon PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iberdrola Renewables today announced the start of construction at its 26.8-megawatt Lakeview Biomass Cogeneration Plant in Lakeview, Ore. The Lakeview project is expected to finish construction and begin producing enough power for 18,000 typical homes by the fall of 2012. Located approximately 90 miles east of Iberdrola Renewables’ existing Klamath Cogeneration Plant, the Lakeview project will be a combined heat and power – or cogeneration – facility using latest-generation technology. Like Klamath, environmental impacts will be minimized through innovative techniques. At Lakeview the plant will be entirely air-cooled – reducing water use by more than 80 percent as compared to conventional water cooling. Collins Pine Company will provide fuel from a combination of logging and sawmill residuals from its Fremont Sawmill. Collins’ Lakeview forest operations – where much of the plant’s fuel will come from – have been independently certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as consistent with their standards for forest management practices.
